Fool's 12th Night is coming soon! Fun, foolishness and frivolity a
plenty. Come try your hand at Glukhaus, Kubb or other period (and non
period) board and card games. Enter contests for the best silly song,
most unusual use of bells, most creative use of motley and help choose
the new Queen or King of Fools! End your day of fun with a feast that
will be foolish as well! (Please advise the autocrat of any dietary
restrictions.)

It is once more time for Myrtleholt's annual Celtic New Year Feast!
Hogmanay is here again! We will again be serving many wonderful dishes; and yes Haggis of course. There will be good food, entertainment, music, good friends, games and lords wash those knees for the famous "Bonnie Knees" contest....and the VERY BEST THING WILL BE ..... A NEW TIME.... since it is the middle of WINTER and we have had SNOW and all that nasty stuff we realize it is hard for many to come so far ...SO...we will be SERVING DINNER AT 4:00 in the afternoon, giving our guests the choice to leave early or stay and visit as they wish.

I am pleased and excited to announce the 2009 Meridian Heraldic
Symposium will be hosted by the Barony of Thor's Mountain in conjunction with their event Black Gryphon, to be held Feb. 13-15, 2009 at Fall Creek Falls State Park in Pikeville, TN. Please, join me in appreciation of the Barony of Thor's Mountain for their great kindness and willingness to serve the Kingdom of Meridies and the
heraldic community by hosting the Heraldic Symposium.

As winter once again flows over the land, snow and ice engulf our kingdom. However, down in the valley, the people have gathered to celebrate Twelfth Night. Inspired by the arms of Her Highness, along with the usual Twelfth Night courts, there will be a masked ball with a blue and silver theme. As dancing many times gets lost at the end of the evening, our ball will be midafternoon, before court. For those more martially inclined, there will be fencing and fighting also available (fighters, in order to use the indoor space, we need to protect the gymnasium floor- please be prepared). And, if that was not enough to fill your day- there will always be merchants, dayboard, youth activities and, most important, socializing with friends.

Once again, the Shire of the Northern Outpost is proud to offer you a surefire cure for those winter blues... a full day of melee madness! Come enjoy our fantastic indoor site, with plenty of room for melee maneuvers (including combat archery), a full slate of classes for the day, space for fencing, and a wonderful dayboard. Contact the autocrat with any dietary concerns.

Greetings to the Nobles throughout the great and mighty Gryphon Lands of Artemisia. The populace of the Shire of Silver Keep is eagerly
anticipating the winter snows to give way to the warmer winds. As it is still a ways off till the warmer weather could be had, we've something else to throw off the doldrums of winter and we invite you to come celebrate our Shire's birthday at Birthday Bash XXIII.